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it's the pentagon. and, you know, there was a time when i was a conservative, and i thought if you want to cut the pentagon budget, you must be some kind of come -- comey that hates america. the pentagon in the department of defense and the only department not subject to audit, that doesn't mean they fail the awe cut or look at all the things they found. they're not subject to audit. what we've been finding figuring out is piece by piece is that for example, since 9/11 in the nine years after 9/11, the pentagon budget went up. the increase in the pentagon budget was $2 trillion. $1 trillion went to the war, the other trillion nobody knows where it went to because the air force has been scaled back, the navy has been scaled back, the army increased margely, but it it's budget was vastly increased. where did the money go? and i think this is a crisis that we're enduring that is going have to require both liberals and conservative to rethink re-examine some of the sacred cows and say we can't afford to say
it's the pentagon. and, you know, there was a time when i was a conservative, and i thought if you want to cut the pentagon budget, you must be some kind of come -- comey that hates america. the pentagon in the department of defense and the only department not subject to audit, that doesn't mean they fail the awe cut or look at all the things they found. they're not subject to audit. what we've been finding figuring out is piece by piece is that for example, since 9/11 in the nine years after...
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for me the low-hanging fruit is the pentagon. there was a time when i was a conservative and i thought if you want to cut the pentagon budget committee must be some comic that is america. when you look closely come you got to understand the pentagon -- the department of defense is the only department not subject to audit. that doesn't mean that they feel the audit were good heavens look at all the the things we found. they are not even subject to audit. so what we've been figuring out piece by piece is for example since 9/11 in the nine years after 9/11, the pentagon budget when not. the increase in the pentagon budget was about to trying dollars during those years. when trying to the wars, but the other trillion, nobody quite knows where it went to. the air force has been scaled back. that may be spent scaled-back. the the army increased marginally, but it's budget was vastly increase. where did the money go? this is a crisis we are enduring this going to have to require liberals than conservatives to rethink some of their -- we
for me the low-hanging fruit is the pentagon. there was a time when i was a conservative and i thought if you want to cut the pentagon budget committee must be some comic that is america. when you look closely come you got to understand the pentagon -- the department of defense is the only department not subject to audit. that doesn't mean that they feel the audit were good heavens look at all the the things we found. they are not even subject to audit. so what we've been figuring out piece by...
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the budget you must hate america and all that but when you look closely you have to understand the pentagon from the department of defense is the only department that isn't subject to audit. that doesn't mean they failed or look at all the things we found they are not even subject to what we've been figuring out piece by piece is that since 1911 the pentagon budget went up. the increase was 2 trillion. 1 trillion went to the board met with the other nobody knows where it went because the air force has been scaled back, the navy is scaled back and the army increased marginally but
the budget you must hate america and all that but when you look closely you have to understand the pentagon from the department of defense is the only department that isn't subject to audit. that doesn't mean they failed or look at all the things we found they are not even subject to what we've been figuring out piece by piece is that since 1911 the pentagon budget went up. the increase was 2 trillion. 1 trillion went to the board met with the other nobody knows where it went because the air...
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[laughter] and the pentagon records it is an enemy of this day and talks about ways to destroy and i did not know much at the time but i assume to any organization that was targeted that way by the pentagon that merited a lot more attention and encouragement and support. i interviewed julianna signage for the article that i roche it did the and night encourage people to donate two wikileaks because they had budgetary constraints that prevented them to go public with disclosures it takes time and energy to authenticate so when they published it would forever destroy their credibility in future disclosures. in response to my recommendation people donate to them and i provided the link, dozens of people literally told me in many different venues at events like this that although they agreed wholeheartedly with by a had written about the potential they were afraid of donating money especially electronically because they would end up on a government list or could even be subjected to criminal liability under their broad material support for terrorism that the professor just talked about.
[laughter] and the pentagon records it is an enemy of this day and talks about ways to destroy and i did not know much at the time but i assume to any organization that was targeted that way by the pentagon that merited a lot more attention and encouragement and support. i interviewed julianna signage for the article that i roche it did the and night encourage people to donate two wikileaks because they had budgetary constraints that prevented them to go public with disclosures it takes time...
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the pentagon papers this is the moment. what is the moment in watergate? it is the pentagon papers. the post got the papers. and so the national editor of the paper knew the guy -- daniel l. berg -- he went and got him and they all arrived at his house at 10:30 in the morning and basically decided -- over the course of the day they hashed out and had lawyers and the hole nine yards. the day ended with a call from ben at house and they are having this argument and there is silence and go ahead. in that moment they would both say later that was the modern washington post story that sets up everything. so he came to the post in 65. he had been at newsweek since 1953 as a european concern -- correspondent. toni bradlee -- in 1961 he became the bureau chief of newsweek magazine and after phil graham died she heard bradley might be leaving or thinking of leaving and wanted to keep him so she had about the lunch and he said he would give his left one to be the managing editor of the post in newspaper parlance and came to the paper and what he said about when he came to the papers the first
the pentagon papers this is the moment. what is the moment in watergate? it is the pentagon papers. the post got the papers. and so the national editor of the paper knew the guy -- daniel l. berg -- he went and got him and they all arrived at his house at 10:30 in the morning and basically decided -- over the course of the day they hashed out and had lawyers and the hole nine yards. the day ended with a call from ben at house and they are having this argument and there is silence and go ahead....
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we have the pentagon now, how many guys were found using child pornography in the pentagon. we have judge whose have been picked up. presidents of universities. football coaches and so forth, and people are being told it was always like this. well, i halve news for you people, it was not always like this. >> host: when did you first get interested in this research you're doing? >> guest: well, actually, it always comes down to something like this. very personal. i was living in a sort of nostalgic little world, writing for captain kangaroo, singing songs, doing television for pbs, nbc, and my daughter was sexually assaulted bay 13-year-old boy who lived upstairs, came from an intact family, and i began to look around and to say, wait a minute. how did this happen? made no sense. and following that trail led me to dr. kinsey, which let me to hugh hefner, who called me kinsey's pamphleteers, which got me looking into the pornography issue which made me the prim investigator for the u.s. justice department research about violence in playboy, penthouse and hustleer. >> host: sho
we have the pentagon now, how many guys were found using child pornography in the pentagon. we have judge whose have been picked up. presidents of universities. football coaches and so forth, and people are being told it was always like this. well, i halve news for you people, it was not always like this. >> host: when did you first get interested in this research you're doing? >> guest: well, actually, it always comes down to something like this. very personal. i was living in a...
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after 9/11 when the pentagon was attacked, they needed five-year companies to put out the fire. the head different companies come from the virginia and the d.c. area and noticed the company's in the suits were able to work through the night in the deal with the pact engines and extremits that were in the pentagon building so the commanders in the pentagon called robb who was the owner of the globe fire suits and said we need 300 fire suits tomorrow. what size? i don't know just figure out how to get them there so the small company in new hampshire about 300 people assembled of the five-year suits and he was the last the was able to take a mercy slide out of 9/11 and the only one in the air space delivered them to the firefighters to put out the fire in the pentagon so the story about the patriotism but it's more than that. i wanted to know what allows the five-year suits to still have these comparative advantage as? and one of the biggest insights and production efficiency. to make them much cheaper than a lot of their competitors and the idea, which i go into detail in the book
after 9/11 when the pentagon was attacked, they needed five-year companies to put out the fire. the head different companies come from the virginia and the d.c. area and noticed the company's in the suits were able to work through the night in the deal with the pact engines and extremits that were in the pentagon building so the commanders in the pentagon called robb who was the owner of the globe fire suits and said we need 300 fire suits tomorrow. what size? i don't know just figure out how...
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one of the chapters begins my ventures into the pentagon with the help of some sources who knew what i was doing about what i was trying to do do and trying to show the people who did not know the world and arranged for me to go in four a computer that had special of information and he wanted me to see the volume of intelligence reports that he was supposed to read every day and it went on and on. he was so frustrated because one of the unregulated irvine manage parts of "top secret america" is the use of an analyst. they have as many as a budget can hold. that is the key to finding out what is happening. those dots make no sense unless you put them in front of a good analyst but if you put them in friend of a bad analyst or inexperienced, it means nothing special. so many of these reports are written no unique information with the unique headers on the top of it that he felt obligated to read these and of course, he could not. but then to be described in more depth, i was told every year the analytic community of people in this world produce 50,000 intelligence reports every year. t
one of the chapters begins my ventures into the pentagon with the help of some sources who knew what i was doing about what i was trying to do do and trying to show the people who did not know the world and arranged for me to go in four a computer that had special of information and he wanted me to see the volume of intelligence reports that he was supposed to read every day and it went on and on. he was so frustrated because one of the unregulated irvine manage parts of "top secret...
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we had was within the pentagon. you would think that if you're sending more troops to afghanistan, those troops would go to places that were most critical, the places that the taliban were seeking to take over, the places that were most at risk, potentially a takeover of the country. instead, we wound up sending the first wave of new forces took part of the country with relatively few people. and i discovered the answer was simply tribal rivalries. not in afghanistan but in the pentagon. it turned out that the first wave of troops were u.s. marines. they wanted to bring their own helicopters, the own logistics. so they did was to work with u.s. army soldiers in the areas in and around the city of kandahar. it was this tale of our own services fighting with each other instead of fighting in common purpose against the enemy. and the stories go on. there was into fighting then the state department, within the u.s. agency for international development. and one other tale, i recount in some detail in the book, we had som
we had was within the pentagon. you would think that if you're sending more troops to afghanistan, those troops would go to places that were most critical, the places that the taliban were seeking to take over, the places that were most at risk, potentially a takeover of the country. instead, we wound up sending the first wave of new forces took part of the country with relatively few people. and i discovered the answer was simply tribal rivalries. not in afghanistan but in the pentagon. it...
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one of the first historical episodes are included in the book is the pentagon. the reason that is so is because ben and everyone will tell you, watergate is not possible without the pentagon paper. the post really figured out what was or who they were and who they wanted to be with the reporting and publishing of that story. and there was a moment prior to the pentagon paper, where ben had decided to publish something and it was an important table setting moment for what would unfold with the pentagon papers. he wrote to her in 1968 with a number no one else has ever seen and he told her he wanted to tell her why didn't i publish this report one day in advance. she said i don't think it's very shattering newspaper said okay, but this is how i want to do it. this is their duty to publish news when it is news that means when we learn, we check if bona fide we secured information legally and checked it in a chair so publishing a stand against the national or public interest. a newspaper that you do anyone of these pressures takes a sure step perceptible, however sm
one of the first historical episodes are included in the book is the pentagon. the reason that is so is because ben and everyone will tell you, watergate is not possible without the pentagon paper. the post really figured out what was or who they were and who they wanted to be with the reporting and publishing of that story. and there was a moment prior to the pentagon paper, where ben had decided to publish something and it was an important table setting moment for what would unfold with the...
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the pentagon papers was a very indicative moment. i tried to find some way to some of their relationship in the book. they go back and forth and people are expecting that kay graham was in love with ben bradlee. ultimately, that's not the case, and it was their contract and it worked. in 1995, kay threw him a book party when his memoir came out, a good life. it will make you see how much i had to leave out any 472 page book. at the end of the party, he realized that he hadn't given ka book yet. kay graham, his boss, the woman who paid him and maybe we'll wealthy man out of him. he wrote her a note and he wrote this. catherine, you have been the most important force in my life. you have been a joyous partner who makes my heart weep every time i see you. there's nothing i can change that. not even my own momentary selfishness. the party with such a generous gesture. your words were so graceful and welcome. we everything about you comes across to me. love, then. i think that is a wonderful foundation and dissemination of who they were a
the pentagon papers was a very indicative moment. i tried to find some way to some of their relationship in the book. they go back and forth and people are expecting that kay graham was in love with ben bradlee. ultimately, that's not the case, and it was their contract and it worked. in 1995, kay threw him a book party when his memoir came out, a good life. it will make you see how much i had to leave out any 472 page book. at the end of the party, he realized that he hadn't given ka book yet....
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i've briefed pentagon. absolutely, in fact, a copy of the book recently went to -- to the panetta family because i got families and they thought the secretary of defense might have seen this. it apparently didn't get to secretary gates. it needs to. i've not just written one. i've written -- beyond this, the pentagon apparently liked my work 'cause they came back and they asked me to be a part of the directed study on iran and i wrote the economic passages in that book, too. and i've been asked by the pentagon a couple of other times to do things. there are good people there, really good people. but they have for the most part know nothing about stock markets and economics and currencies. they are encouraging them to start thinking in those terms. yes, it's not a partisan issue. i wish the obama administration would pick it up and run through it. it's not through lack of trying. i briefed senator lieber man's staff and so democrat and republican. >> but kind of following up on that, can you comment on wheth
i've briefed pentagon. absolutely, in fact, a copy of the book recently went to -- to the panetta family because i got families and they thought the secretary of defense might have seen this. it apparently didn't get to secretary gates. it needs to. i've not just written one. i've written -- beyond this, the pentagon apparently liked my work 'cause they came back and they asked me to be a part of the directed study on iran and i wrote the economic passages in that book, too. and i've been asked...
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so congress in the wisdom has told the pentagon they have to have 11 aircraft carriers. they have a special permission to have 10 for awhile while building a new one. they want to replace each of the aircraft it has over one over every five years for the rest of my life. each -- these new aircraft carriers, which are huge, the navy calls them 4.5 acres of moble search territory. they cost $11 billion. it is the same amount that medicare will spend on all the hip, knee, and shoulder surgery on 700,000 medicare beneficiary. when you do the scale, one aircraft carrier 700,000 joint replacement. that's not the worse of it. when they take one of these things out of commission, it costs $2 billion. aircraft carriers are intensive even in death. each one has two nuclear reactor. disassembling that is expensive. we have decisions to make on how big defense budget we want to . brad mentioned a couple of misconsumptions people have. another one is all the money that the government spends goes to pay bureaucrats. most who think adopt do a good job. now it is true that the federal g
so congress in the wisdom has told the pentagon they have to have 11 aircraft carriers. they have a special permission to have 10 for awhile while building a new one. they want to replace each of the aircraft it has over one over every five years for the rest of my life. each -- these new aircraft carriers, which are huge, the navy calls them 4.5 acres of moble search territory. they cost $11 billion. it is the same amount that medicare will spend on all the hip, knee, and shoulder surgery on...
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it is a manufacturing existing since 1887, and they make fire suits, and after 9/11 when the pentagon was attacked and they needed fire companies to put out that fire, they had different companies come from the virginia area and the dc area, and they noticed that only the companies that were wearing the fire suits were able to work through the night and deal with the pathogens and extremities that were in the pentagon building. one of the people, the commander in the pentagon, called up rob freeze, who was the owner of globe fire suits said we need 300 fire suits here tomorrow. rob said, what's the sizes? i don't know, figure out how to get them here. rob freeze, the small company in new hampshire of about 300 people assembled fire suits, and rob was the only one allowed to take a mercy flight after 9/11, the only one allowed in the air space, delivered the fire suits, and the firefighters used them to put out the fire in the pentagon. it's a story about patriotism, but it's more than that. i wanted to know, well, what is it that allowed globe fire suits to still have comparative adva
it is a manufacturing existing since 1887, and they make fire suits, and after 9/11 when the pentagon was attacked and they needed fire companies to put out that fire, they had different companies come from the virginia area and the dc area, and they noticed that only the companies that were wearing the fire suits were able to work through the night and deal with the pathogens and extremities that were in the pentagon building. one of the people, the commander in the pentagon, called up rob...
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he delivered these and use them to put out the fire in the pentagon. the story of patriotism is more than that. what allows fire suits to have these advantages? one of the biggest insights came in a production each fission see. they were able to make fire systems much cheaper than foreign competitors and the idea i go into detail about in the book came from one of the employees on the assembly line who said if you use a smaller size neil data smaller size needle will make smaller holes and it will save fabric and costs and this was an idea that was submitted in a suggestion box that led to a lot of innovation and it shows a culture of listening to employees loathsome -- the second part that was unique was the way they would innovate sensors and the type of equipment on fire suits that help fight the extremities didn't come from ph.d. scientists. the guy who was doing a lot of tinkering didn't even have a college degree so often there's a sense that we need stem education and we do but we shouldn't underestimate the sense of practical skills often passe
he delivered these and use them to put out the fire in the pentagon. the story of patriotism is more than that. what allows fire suits to have these advantages? one of the biggest insights came in a production each fission see. they were able to make fire systems much cheaper than foreign competitors and the idea i go into detail about in the book came from one of the employees on the assembly line who said if you use a smaller size neil data smaller size needle will make smaller holes and it...
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it takes place in cia headquarters, the pentagon, and at the white house. you know, it's funny for me to write a story about a military operation where 90% of the story takes place in washington, d.c., but that's where the story actually unfolded. today, unique, i think, among presidents of the united states, president obama is almost, daily, given a dossier on a target. this is someone in the cross hairs of the cia or the military, and obama or directer petraeus has to make a decision about whether to shoot at that target, whether to take that person out. now, i know that presidents have had to make critically important decisions affecting thousands and hundreds of thousands of lives throughout history of this country, but it seems to me to be a new development for the president of the united states to be deciding on individual targets around the world on a regular basis, and i think that that is probably one of the most unique developments in modern war, and that kind of defines right now the nature of the war that we're fighting. obama, when he said that
it takes place in cia headquarters, the pentagon, and at the white house. you know, it's funny for me to write a story about a military operation where 90% of the story takes place in washington, d.c., but that's where the story actually unfolded. today, unique, i think, among presidents of the united states, president obama is almost, daily, given a dossier on a target. this is someone in the cross hairs of the cia or the military, and obama or directer petraeus has to make a decision about...
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after 9/11 when the pentagon was attacked and they needed fire companies to put out the fire, they had different companies come from the virginia area and the d.c. area and they noticed that only the companies that were wearing these fire suits were able to work through the night and deal with the pathogens and extremities that were in the pentagon building. so, one of the people, the commanders and the pentagon called up rot -- rod friese and said we need 300 fire suits tomorrow. he says what's the size? i don't know, just find out how to get them there. so, rod friese, in this small company of new hampshire -- about 300 people -- assembled these fire suits. rod friese was the only one was able to take a mercy flight after 9/11, the only one in the air space, delivered these fire suits and they used them to put out the fire in the pentagon. so it is a story about patriotism, but it's more than that. i wanted to know well, what is it that allows the fire suits to still has these comparative advantages. in one of the biggest insights for global fire suits came in a production efficiency
after 9/11 when the pentagon was attacked and they needed fire companies to put out the fire, they had different companies come from the virginia area and the d.c. area and they noticed that only the companies that were wearing these fire suits were able to work through the night and deal with the pathogens and extremities that were in the pentagon building. so, one of the people, the commanders and the pentagon called up rot -- rod friese and said we need 300 fire suits tomorrow. he says...
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i think it is wrong the pentagon wants there to be -- they said they support their being parades' and other countries, every other city in the country but not new york. the head of city council and a few of the counselors still want to do it. iraq and afghanistan support the idea. the pentagon don't get the last word on this so it is still sort of an open question. >> we have a question in the second balcony. >> i read and enjoy your book but one of the premises of your book is the demise of the citizen soldier after vietnam and to discuss several reasons but one and you don't discuss is the fact that a significant portion of those civilian soldiers in vietnam revolted. mutiny against their army, killed their soldiers. killed their officers on the history assisted and this scared the shit out of the army and ever since that incident the eliminated the soldiers, they turned themselves into a professional army so they never have to again. could you comment on that and why it was never mentioned in your book? >> i think it is implicit when you talk to the military right now about this le
i think it is wrong the pentagon wants there to be -- they said they support their being parades' and other countries, every other city in the country but not new york. the head of city council and a few of the counselors still want to do it. iraq and afghanistan support the idea. the pentagon don't get the last word on this so it is still sort of an open question. >> we have a question in the second balcony. >> i read and enjoy your book but one of the premises of your book is the...
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the pentagon budget went up. the increase was about $2 trillion during those years. $1 trillion went to the war. the other trillion dollars, nobody knows quite where winter. the air force has been scaled back. the navy has been scaled back. the army is increased marginally, but the budget was vastly increased. where did the money go? this is a crisis that we are enduring. it is going to have to require both liberals and conservatives to rethink some of their sacred cows and say that we can't afford to say that this is off the table. nothing is off the table. particularly, the waste of time -- also, it's not just that they have thrown a lot of money out the window. it is the way they do it. there are two techniques that they use to get the taxpayers going. so we have political engineering. whereby once a program gets going, a missile program, a weapons program, it doesn't matter if the enemy it was made for no longer exists. it doesn't matter that the thing can really work as promised. so the prophets and the jobs
the pentagon budget went up. the increase was about $2 trillion during those years. $1 trillion went to the war. the other trillion dollars, nobody knows quite where winter. the air force has been scaled back. the navy has been scaled back. the army is increased marginally, but the budget was vastly increased. where did the money go? this is a crisis that we are enduring. it is going to have to require both liberals and conservatives to rethink some of their sacred cows and say that we can't...
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so congress in its infinite wisdom is told the pentagon have to 11 aircraft carriers. they've got a special permission of 10 for a while whether building a new one. the pentagon wants to replace each aircraft carrier it has, one aircraft carrier every five years for the rest of my life. these new aircraft carriers, which are enormous, the navy calls for a half acres of mobile not for -- sovereign territory and cost $11 billion. $11 billion is the same out that medicare will spend on all the hip, knee and shoulder surgery on 700,000 beneficiaries. when you do your skin, one aircraft carrier, 700,000 joint replacements. that's not the worst of the. when they take one of these things out of commission, it costs $2 billion. aircraft carriers are expensive even in death. each one has two nuclear reactors and disassembly a nuclear reactor is expensive. so we have some decisions to make on how big a defense budget we want to have. brad mentioned a couple of misconceptions that people like it when the of the misconceptions that people have is that all the money the government
so congress in its infinite wisdom is told the pentagon have to 11 aircraft carriers. they've got a special permission of 10 for a while whether building a new one. the pentagon wants to replace each aircraft carrier it has, one aircraft carrier every five years for the rest of my life. these new aircraft carriers, which are enormous, the navy calls for a half acres of mobile not for -- sovereign territory and cost $11 billion. $11 billion is the same out that medicare will spend on all the...
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it's a pentagon policy we need to do with. so it's one of those policies that we need to address very quickly because we don't have to go the congressional rabbit i see it changing. it's unfortunate that we couldn't do one action, it's just the other servicers, our counterparts overseas. it's something that we can attack here in the near future that i would like to open up to the audience. let me get in one more question if you don't mind. are any of you from military families speak is the reason i ask is, as you've gotten to know more gay and lesbian people in the civilian world, do you often get asked a question of why you joined, and you know, how do you explain that? i guess i'm asking, you join an environment, you, i'm wondering how that is going to be different. >> my father is a master sergeant in the united states on and is also the son dash also done to deployment to iraq to india still in the army? >> he is still in the service. not any active component though. and curling up with him, then, having him around my life
it's a pentagon policy we need to do with. so it's one of those policies that we need to address very quickly because we don't have to go the congressional rabbit i see it changing. it's unfortunate that we couldn't do one action, it's just the other servicers, our counterparts overseas. it's something that we can attack here in the near future that i would like to open up to the audience. let me get in one more question if you don't mind. are any of you from military families speak is the...
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so congress, in its infinite wisdom, has told the pentagon that they have to have 11 aircraft carriers. they got special permission to have ten for a while while they're building a new one, and the pentagon wallets to replace -- wants to replace one aircraft carrier every five years for the rest of of my life. these new aircraft carriers, which are enormous -- the navy calls them four-and-a-half acres of mobile, sovereign territory -- [laughter] costs $11 billion. $11 billion is the same amount that medicare will spend on all the hip, knee and shoulder surgery on 700,000 medicare beneficiaries. so that's -- when you do your scale, one aircraft carrier, 700,000 joint replacements. and that's not the worst of it. when they take one of these things out of commission, it costs $2 billion. aircraft carriers are expensive even in death. each one has two nuclear reactors, and disassembling a nuclear reactor is expensive. so we have some decisions to make on how big a defense budget we want to have. brad mentioned a couple of misconceptions people have. one of the other misconceptions people h
so congress, in its infinite wisdom, has told the pentagon that they have to have 11 aircraft carriers. they got special permission to have ten for a while while they're building a new one, and the pentagon wallets to replace -- wants to replace one aircraft carrier every five years for the rest of of my life. these new aircraft carriers, which are enormous -- the navy calls them four-and-a-half acres of mobile, sovereign territory -- [laughter] costs $11 billion. $11 billion is the same amount...
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between the pentagon is it is not clear where it originated -- [talking over each other] >> gave jerry bremerton necessary guidance and instructions to disband the army if that is what he thought was right and he issued the order disbanding the army. i did know what was coming after. i knew senior members of the joint chiefs of staff to know. the cia didn't know what and the army was totally disbanded and you have hundreds of thousands of people who are armed and trained in the use of arms who are set free and within a few weeks lining up wanting their pensions now that they have been fired. we had to pay something in order to keep the peace so we started to rebuild an iraqi army and it has taken some time. i think was a bad decision. if jerry bremer was here he would tell you it was the right decision but i think it was the wrong decision and most importantly it was not what we told the president we were going to do. >> given that the u.s. is now out of iraq in terms of being a combat force what ultimately -- what is the legacy within the military? what are we going to be like because
between the pentagon is it is not clear where it originated -- [talking over each other] >> gave jerry bremerton necessary guidance and instructions to disband the army if that is what he thought was right and he issued the order disbanding the army. i did know what was coming after. i knew senior members of the joint chiefs of staff to know. the cia didn't know what and the army was totally disbanded and you have hundreds of thousands of people who are armed and trained in the use of...
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i talked to him in his office at the pentagon which is pretty cool. has a little shrine to the capture of osama bin laden. he told me in the 12 years he was out of office when he was teaching at an institute he set up in california he said i used to tell students that we are eager governed by the leadership or by crisis. i always thought that if leadership wasn't there that ultimately you rely on crisis to drive decisions. in the last few years, he likes to laugh at his own jokes, he said my biggest concern was crisis doesn't seem to drive decisions either. there goes my theory. on their i would like to end. i am happy to take your questions. i would like to recognize my wife naomi carthy. anyone who has written a book knows that the worst thing is for the spouse who has to put up with someone who can't think about anything else and can't sleep at night and is perennially crabby. this was a quick book so she got an intense those of author spouseitis. my agent is married to a psychiatrist and it shows because he is a great counselor. when you say how c
i talked to him in his office at the pentagon which is pretty cool. has a little shrine to the capture of osama bin laden. he told me in the 12 years he was out of office when he was teaching at an institute he set up in california he said i used to tell students that we are eager governed by the leadership or by crisis. i always thought that if leadership wasn't there that ultimately you rely on crisis to drive decisions. in the last few years, he likes to laugh at his own jokes, he said my...
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and the pentagon didn't want to have that cloud lingering over them. they made the future business of boeing is bringing in an outsider. i think that stung. this is a guy that who everybody thought saved the company. and he didn't get the top job. if he had, he would be here and not there and not here. for the began economy, i think it's a good thing he didn't. anybody else? yeah. >> a quick question about alan's relationship with the detroit area how he feels he's like, you know, does i had have heart in this area or more in seattle. because i've lived in both places, i grew up here and i was born here. lived in seattle, and, you know, experienced the technology scene there. and i see that area as being -- it should be very influential to detroit. but when you come here, i mean, there's joust differences that i can see why he would want to stay there if he lives there. and has his kids in schools there. how does he somehow transfer some of that to the detroit area. have you talked to him about how he could do that? >> i think it's clear to fix ford no
and the pentagon didn't want to have that cloud lingering over them. they made the future business of boeing is bringing in an outsider. i think that stung. this is a guy that who everybody thought saved the company. and he didn't get the top job. if he had, he would be here and not there and not here. for the began economy, i think it's a good thing he didn't. anybody else? yeah. >> a quick question about alan's relationship with the detroit area how he feels he's like, you know, does i...
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and knowing this easy i think the pentagon doesn't want to get into it. it's the politicians who are pushing on that particular front and the pressure here is coming largely. just to be fair because they don't want the nuclear monopoly to be violated. so it's a very tricky one. i don't think the u.s. establishment has quite made up its mind on that. >> i wouldn't underestimate the factor of petraeus' military men being at the cia. i do think televisions isc distorted. we know we thought tenetc distorted. we thought go back to the bush senior airman team b. was distorted about the sovietc union. but the cia is the petraeus tha the hamas running, as you know, predator strikes everywhere in the world. there's a predator strike in the united states cause some domestic dissidents so to speak and i don't know if you read that about a cow war. it's interesting. when greenwald went after it, it wasc quite amazing using drugs drastically for police surveillance in the country.c but the issue is i wouldn't quite believe the pentagon on anything because their
and knowing this easy i think the pentagon doesn't want to get into it. it's the politicians who are pushing on that particular front and the pressure here is coming largely. just to be fair because they don't want the nuclear monopoly to be violated. so it's a very tricky one. i don't think the u.s. establishment has quite made up its mind on that. >> i wouldn't underestimate the factor of petraeus' military men being at the cia. i do think televisions isc distorted. we know we thought...
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and the article basically said there's a pentagon report that's been leaked that declares wikileaks an enemy of the state and talks about ways to destroy it. i didn't know much about wikileaks at the time, but i kind of assumed any organization that had been targeted that way by the pentagon was one that merited a lot more attention and probably a lot more encouragement and even support. so i went and read a lot about them, and i interviewed julian assange for the article that i wrote, and i wrote about it, and i posted the audio interview. and at the end i encouraged people to coand donate to wikileaks because they had budgetary restraints. it takes a lot of time and energy to authenticate the document. one of the things the pentagon talked about was submitting fraudulent documents to them so it would forever destroy their credibility and the credibility of future disclosures. and in response to my recommendation that people go and donate to them, and i provide add link electronically online and through paypal, dozens of people, literally, told he in many different venues in the comme
and the article basically said there's a pentagon report that's been leaked that declares wikileaks an enemy of the state and talks about ways to destroy it. i didn't know much about wikileaks at the time, but i kind of assumed any organization that had been targeted that way by the pentagon was one that merited a lot more attention and probably a lot more encouragement and even support. so i went and read a lot about them, and i interviewed julian assange for the article that i wrote, and i...
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but it with my background of lawyer and a political consultant, and became involved with the pentagon after 9/11 because people wanted me to look at what the pentagon was doing from the point* of view of a political consultant one thing led to another now almost all my time is devoted to national security. i am interested in how political players use communication to compete for power and how they use communication to consolidate their grip on power. through that dimension that this book examines what makes pakistani politics click. what i learned from local elections and i have done the same thing abroad but those of us to do campaign is what politicians say in public in do in public matters a lot more than what they do our say in private. as an example all of us are watching what is going on with the iowa primary is. who will win the republican nomination for president. you don't need to be in the backroom with mitt romney o.r. rick perry to figure out the dynamics. we can all look at it by watching television that is not apply to every kid to the most entries one of the very few th
but it with my background of lawyer and a political consultant, and became involved with the pentagon after 9/11 because people wanted me to look at what the pentagon was doing from the point* of view of a political consultant one thing led to another now almost all my time is devoted to national security. i am interested in how political players use communication to compete for power and how they use communication to consolidate their grip on power. through that dimension that this book...
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and the pentagon didn't want to have that cloud lingered over them so they made condition of future business with boeing, bring in an outsider. but yeah, i think, i think this is a guide who everybody thought would save the company. and he didn't get the top job. i think if he had, obviously he would still be there at night here in dearborn. so for the michigan economy, i think it's a good thing he didn't. >> i had a quick question about just alan's relationship with the detroit area and how he feels he is, like, i don't know, does he have heart in this area or do more in seattle? i've lived in both places. i grew up here and i was born here, and i lived in seattle, i extended the technology scene there, and that you see that area as being, they should be very, you know, influential to detroit. but when you come here, i mean, there's just differences and i can see why he would want to stay there if he has his kids there. how does he somehow transferred some of that to the detroit area? did you talk to him how he could do that? >> i think it's clear that he came your to fix forward,
and the pentagon didn't want to have that cloud lingered over them so they made condition of future business with boeing, bring in an outsider. but yeah, i think, i think this is a guide who everybody thought would save the company. and he didn't get the top job. i think if he had, obviously he would still be there at night here in dearborn. so for the michigan economy, i think it's a good thing he didn't. >> i had a quick question about just alan's relationship with the detroit area and...
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you know, we have a pentagon now. how many guys who are were found using child pornography in the pentagon. we have judges who have been picked up. presidents of universities. we have a ton of people football coaches and so forth. people are being told it was always like this. well, i have news for you. it was not always like this. >> when did you first get interested in the research you're doing. >> it comes down too something like this. it was personal. i was living in a little world writing for kangaroos, singing songs, doing television for cbs, and my daughter was sexual assaultly by a 13 years old boy. and i began to look around and say wait a minute, how did it happen it made no sense. and, following that trail, lead me to dr. kinsey who lead me to huge heaver in who lead me into looking into the pornography issue. which made me the principle -- children crime and violence. there we are. >> should pornography be outlawed? >> yes. >> yes. we can go back to the original. it was, you know. it was at one time. and w
you know, we have a pentagon now. how many guys who are were found using child pornography in the pentagon. we have judges who have been picked up. presidents of universities. we have a ton of people football coaches and so forth. people are being told it was always like this. well, i have news for you. it was not always like this. >> when did you first get interested in the research you're doing. >> it comes down too something like this. it was personal. i was living in a little...
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we have a pentagon now, you know how many guys were found using child pornography in the pentagon. we have judges who have been picked up we have presidents and coaches and so forth. people are being told this was always like this. well, i have news. it was not always like this. >> when did you first get interested in this research that you are doing? >> well, it comes down to something like this. it was very personal. i was living in a nostalgic world writing for captain kangaroo, singing songs. doing television for cbs, nbc. my daughter was sexually assaulted by a 13-year-old boy. i began to look around and say wait a minute, how did this happen? it made no sense. following that trail, it led me to doctor kinsey, which led me to hugh hefner, which moved me into looking into the pornography issue, which made me the principal investigator for the u.s. department of justice study on images of child crime and violence. so there we are. >> should pornography be outlawed? >> oh, yes. originally it was, you know. we didn't lose anything by going back to that. it has had a huge impact on
we have a pentagon now, you know how many guys were found using child pornography in the pentagon. we have judges who have been picked up we have presidents and coaches and so forth. people are being told this was always like this. well, i have news. it was not always like this. >> when did you first get interested in this research that you are doing? >> well, it comes down to something like this. it was very personal. i was living in a nostalgic world writing for captain kangaroo,...
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>> the pentagon working group and, you know, the folks there. and, but, you know, the second edition they're asking for copies. and that's progress, right? like, i mean, they're very scared on the first edition, the second edition they're like, hey, can you guys send us a few copies? that's progress. i think that progressed the military farther. >> hi. i'm carey maloney, and my husband and i are volunteers here at the library. first, the magazine -- when i contacted josh by e-mail just knowing that we wanted for our archives your first issues of the magazine and moving forward we want your archives for the archives -- [laughter] >> keep the new york public library in mind. >> you brought some copies with you, i hope. >> i have one. [laughter] >> we'll auction it off. [laughter] >> and this is less, this isn't a question, it's more an observation, but one of our donors came to us originally three years ago, he's in his late 80s, and his request to us was predicated on our interest in gays in the military and our collections with gays in the milit
>> the pentagon working group and, you know, the folks there. and, but, you know, the second edition they're asking for copies. and that's progress, right? like, i mean, they're very scared on the first edition, the second edition they're like, hey, can you guys send us a few copies? that's progress. i think that progressed the military farther. >> hi. i'm carey maloney, and my husband and i are volunteers here at the library. first, the magazine -- when i contacted josh by e-mail...
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the pentagon doing something similar. they are making their people more accountable about who they talk to and the state department and the cia has been doing it for awhile. this has again two effects. one of them is that it is clamping down on the flow of information. that sort of is good for the white house because they can control things better. it's not necessarily as good for the american public or reporters. the odd thing about this it actually in the interesting thing for the historian. because what you end up having is all of these memos about who was talking to what reporter. who tried to work out the sources that reporters were using for particular stories. you go back to the memo and find out who talked to them. this is interesting in the wake of the crisis. there were number of articles that came out. some of them were sort of fawning what happened. some more critical. was one written by [inaudible] [laughter] and charles bartlett the saturday evening post about what happened during the days. charles bartlett
the pentagon doing something similar. they are making their people more accountable about who they talk to and the state department and the cia has been doing it for awhile. this has again two effects. one of them is that it is clamping down on the flow of information. that sort of is good for the white house because they can control things better. it's not necessarily as good for the american public or reporters. the odd thing about this it actually in the interesting thing for the historian....
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it's a pentagon policy that we need to do with. so it's one of those policies that we need to address very quickly because we don't have to go. ici do see a change. it's unfortunate we couldn't do just one thing for action, just the other services, our counterparts overseas, but it's something that we can attack here in the near future. be i would like to open up to the audience, but let me get one more question if you don't win. are any of you from military families? the reason i ask is, as you've got to know more gay and lesbian people in the civilian world you often get asked the question of why you joined? and how do you explain that? i guess i'm asking, you joined an environment that it was not welcome at the time. i would have that's different. >> my father is indeed, a master sergeant, and i sits areas also than two deployments to iraq. bembenek and you still in the army? >> he is still in a service. not any active component though. and growing up with him, you know, having him around my life certainly influenced my decision
it's a pentagon policy that we need to do with. so it's one of those policies that we need to address very quickly because we don't have to go. ici do see a change. it's unfortunate we couldn't do just one thing for action, just the other services, our counterparts overseas, but it's something that we can attack here in the near future. be i would like to open up to the audience, but let me get one more question if you don't win. are any of you from military families? the reason i ask is, as...
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nobody in the pentagon general counsel's office is watching the supreme court stock for things that seem on their face have nothing to do with the military and obviously the state of louisiana and the state that come in as run to the court on its behalf they didn't think of the military. so it fell through the cracks. it came to my attention but it does make you wonder how many things fall through the cracks in other cases that just don't happen to come to anybody's attention. i don't know the answer to that. u.s. about the debate over or regionalism. the second amendment case was interesting because justice dubya for the majority, justice stevens, they both thought that case on grounds of or regionalism--originali regionalism--originalism, on the grounds -- on some ground and try to let your evidence that some people found compelling, as to whether the framers meant the second amendment to apply to individual rights or only a right in connection with membership in a militia. that was your originalism when added to all nine justices fighting our originalism. we don't really know. the tex
nobody in the pentagon general counsel's office is watching the supreme court stock for things that seem on their face have nothing to do with the military and obviously the state of louisiana and the state that come in as run to the court on its behalf they didn't think of the military. so it fell through the cracks. it came to my attention but it does make you wonder how many things fall through the cracks in other cases that just don't happen to come to anybody's attention. i don't know the...
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when the spending requests came in, he said, i know the boys at the pentagon. he believed real national security was from a sound economy. he was a deficit hawk, boy, we could use him today, who controlled government spending and taxes. the famous speech warning against the industrial complex was at the end of the presidency, but worked on it all along behind the scenes. heaven help us he liked to say when we get a president who knows less about the military than i do. it was not about the economy or saving money. in the berlin crisis and earlier crisis with korea and vietnam in 1953 over the strait in 1954-55 and 1958 in the suez crisis in 1956, he was planning a bigger gain for higher stakes. west point cadet and young army officer, ike was a great poker player, and, indeed, so good, he had to give it up. he was taking too much money from the fellow officers hurting his career. he switched to bridge, but he never forgot how to bluff. the soviets, he bluffed with nuclear weapons. as only a real warrior can, ike hated war. curiously, the great war hero was neve
when the spending requests came in, he said, i know the boys at the pentagon. he believed real national security was from a sound economy. he was a deficit hawk, boy, we could use him today, who controlled government spending and taxes. the famous speech warning against the industrial complex was at the end of the presidency, but worked on it all along behind the scenes. heaven help us he liked to say when we get a president who knows less about the military than i do. it was not about the...
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the pentagon preamped a top secret report in 2008 that declared wikileaks to be an enemy of the state describes ways to destroy wikileaks, and it's incredible because the way in which wikileaks has been rendered all but inoperateble, but in any event, the 2008 report ironically was leak to wikileaks, then published, and "new york times" wrote about it saying there's a report leaked declaring wikileaks as an enemy of the state and how to destroy it. i assumed any organization that had been target the that way, by the pentagon, was one that was more encouraging, and i read about them, interview assange for the article i wrote, and i wrote about it, posted the interview, and i encouraged people to donate to wikileaks because there were budgetary constraints preventing them from going public. takes time and energy to authenticate documents. one of the things the pentagon talked about was submitting fraudulent documents to them so when they published it, it would destroy their credibility and credibility of future disclosures. in response to donating them and how to do that online and thro
the pentagon preamped a top secret report in 2008 that declared wikileaks to be an enemy of the state describes ways to destroy wikileaks, and it's incredible because the way in which wikileaks has been rendered all but inoperateble, but in any event, the 2008 report ironically was leak to wikileaks, then published, and "new york times" wrote about it saying there's a report leaked declaring wikileaks as an enemy of the state and how to destroy it. i assumed any organization that had...
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all of them had backgrounds in the military or in the pentagon and this was true of the secretary of state who had been the chairman of that joint chiefs of staff. richard r. medish as it was of cheney and rumsfeld. it's rare to have an administration with the former secretary of defense. and they also shared some common beliefs. america was unquestionably a force for good in the world. a military power was of supreme importance and in fact the disagreements among them were halgand win force should be used for the united states should be saved for the big war were used for house it was in iraq. immediately after obama's election in 2008i decided i wanted to take a look at the democrats over the same time period. many of my books have covered the same time period from the 60's through the present day. and i kind of come across democratic policy and passing it on and i wanted to unify it and look at the obama administration. and since the 1970's, the democratic parties have a strong grass-roots base growing out of the entire war movement of the vietnam era. they have far fewer people p
all of them had backgrounds in the military or in the pentagon and this was true of the secretary of state who had been the chairman of that joint chiefs of staff. richard r. medish as it was of cheney and rumsfeld. it's rare to have an administration with the former secretary of defense. and they also shared some common beliefs. america was unquestionably a force for good in the world. a military power was of supreme importance and in fact the disagreements among them were halgand win force...
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the pentagon planned on it. [applause] it's unable. their line on is the listen, the afghanistan wars are separate political entities but the same people have been fighting both of these wars. we have 90,000 americans deployed right now in afghanistan. and so welcome them home from iraq is essentially welcoming them home from a political entity which a lot of them are not home. i absolutely. i have have a lot of respect for that viewpoint. a lot of people who i know care about the issue as much as i do. adopt that as their position. i talked to a lot of veterans who say, you know what? i've been in both places. i've been deployed in both place finance i were in afghanistan right now knowing there's been a parade to mark the end of the iraq war would be psyched to be able to think about coming home to do that for me when i'm home for afghanistan too. i don't think is an issue where you're wrong with f you're on the one side or right on the other. i wouldn't love to debate it. i think it's weird that the pentagon wants there to be -- the
the pentagon planned on it. [applause] it's unable. their line on is the listen, the afghanistan wars are separate political entities but the same people have been fighting both of these wars. we have 90,000 americans deployed right now in afghanistan. and so welcome them home from iraq is essentially welcoming them home from a political entity which a lot of them are not home. i absolutely. i have have a lot of respect for that viewpoint. a lot of people who i know care about the issue as much...
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when the spending request came in, ike would say i know those boys down at the pentagon. ike believed the real national security came from a sound economy. he was a deficit hawk. he controlled government spending and package. his famous speech warning against military-industrial complex came at the end of his presidency but, in fact, he been working on it all a long. mostly behind the scenes. heaven help us, he liked to say, that we'll get a president who knows less about the military than i do. this approach to the military was not just about the economy. in the berlin crisis in 58-59 and in early crisis with korea and vietnam in 1953, 54, the almost straight, the suez crisis in 1956, eisenhower was playing a bigger game for higher stakes. a west point cadet and a young army officer, ike had been a great poker player. indeed, he was so good that he had to give it up. he was taking too much money from his fellow officers and it was hurting his career. he switched to bridge, but he never forgot how to block it with the soviets he bluffed with nuclear weapons. as only a rea
when the spending request came in, ike would say i know those boys down at the pentagon. ike believed the real national security came from a sound economy. he was a deficit hawk. he controlled government spending and package. his famous speech warning against military-industrial complex came at the end of his presidency but, in fact, he been working on it all a long. mostly behind the scenes. heaven help us, he liked to say, that we'll get a president who knows less about the military than i...
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but it is largely not -- it's a matter of saying that the pentagon in the cna have, in fact, not been essential to the role the american state has played in the world as the treasury and the federal reserve have been. and that term empire which was coined for the way in which decapolis class of europe after 1945 facing strongly and much more concerning labour movements , the socialist threat that they posed, and they were concerned about a soviet invasion. turn to the american state to look to the american state to reconstruct a capitalistic. and in that sense it was empire building. when multinational corporations, the conditions by the late 1950's were found conducive to the flow in europe, that was very much empire. and the conditions that had been established toward the productivity councils that were set up to the 1950's to learn from the way in which american workers had struck a deal with the famous trio detroit with the auto companies whereby they would contribute to productivity by not interfering in the managerial prerogatives of the workplace, provided they got great return
but it is largely not -- it's a matter of saying that the pentagon in the cna have, in fact, not been essential to the role the american state has played in the world as the treasury and the federal reserve have been. and that term empire which was coined for the way in which decapolis class of europe after 1945 facing strongly and much more concerning labour movements , the socialist threat that they posed, and they were concerned about a soviet invasion. turn to the american state to look to...
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obama has asked the pentagon to steady ticking is down to three and the warheads. then he goes around saying he dreams of world free of nuclear weapons. kind of a nice dream the idea, but here's the problem, china is building and modernizing its armed arsenal. in reality while he acted kids streamed the only country whose it clear weapons he can actually reduce tourism. why? is doing it to level the nuclear planning field he is essentially slashing america's nuclear arsenals of that taken in the era of american superiority where america is clearly dominant. he's trying to restore the world before colonialism china, india, the arab islamic world, the civilizations of the americas. it was a multiple world without a single superpower like america . i believe obama wants us to go back to them hold. where does this leave us? think one of the powerful things about our phone is it shows obama's the agenda and his own words. it links them to his actions and it shows what the likely next move is going to be a number of key areas. ultimately you can understand where he's goi
obama has asked the pentagon to steady ticking is down to three and the warheads. then he goes around saying he dreams of world free of nuclear weapons. kind of a nice dream the idea, but here's the problem, china is building and modernizing its armed arsenal. in reality while he acted kids streamed the only country whose it clear weapons he can actually reduce tourism. why? is doing it to level the nuclear planning field he is essentially slashing america's nuclear arsenals of that taken in...
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, and the pentagon didn't want to have that cloud lingering over them, so they made a condition of future business with boeing being bring anything an outsider. but, yeah, i think that stung. i mean, this is a guy who, you know, everybody thought had saved the company, you know? and he didn't get the top job. and i think that if he had, obviously, he would still be there and not here in dearborn. so i think, you know, for the michigan economy i think it's a good thing he didn't. [laughter] anybody else? yeah. >> i had a quick question about, um, just alan's relationship with the detroit area and how he feels he's, like, i don't know, does he have heart in this area, or is it more in seattle? because i'm, i've been, i've lived in both places. i grew up here, and i was born here, and then i lived in seattle and, you know, experienced the technology scene there, and i just see that area as being -- it should be very, you know, influential to detroit, but when you come here, i mean, there's just differences, and i can see why he would want to stay there if he lives or mercer island and has hi
, and the pentagon didn't want to have that cloud lingering over them, so they made a condition of future business with boeing being bring anything an outsider. but, yeah, i think that stung. i mean, this is a guy who, you know, everybody thought had saved the company, you know? and he didn't get the top job. and i think that if he had, obviously, he would still be there and not here in dearborn. so i think, you know, for the michigan economy i think it's a good thing he didn't. [laughter]...
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i think it's with the pentagon wants there to be come it says they support there being parades in every other country, every other city in the country but not in new york. ahead of the the city council in new york still wants to do. the pentagon is advising against but they probably don't get the last word on uzbeks i think it's still sort of an open question. thank you. spent a question in the second balcony. >> this one? >> yes. [laughter] >> rachel, i read and really enjoyed your book, but what is the premise of your book is the demise of the citizen soldier after vietnam or can you discuss several -- one you don't discuss is the fact that a significant portion of the civilian soldiers in the town revolted, and you need, against their army, killed their soldiers, killed the officers when they resisted it. and this scared the shit out of the army. and ever since that incident, they have a limited the civilian soldier to have turned themselves into a professional army, so they never have to face the kind of think again. can you comment on that and why it's never mentioned in your book?
i think it's with the pentagon wants there to be come it says they support there being parades in every other country, every other city in the country but not in new york. ahead of the the city council in new york still wants to do. the pentagon is advising against but they probably don't get the last word on uzbeks i think it's still sort of an open question. thank you. spent a question in the second balcony. >> this one? >> yes. [laughter] >> rachel, i read and really...
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and so suddenly between the pentagon, and it's not clear where it originated, mr. rumsfeld, mr. wolfowitz or mr. fite, gave mr. bremer the necessary instructions to disband the army if that's what he thought was right. and jermy issued the order disbanding the army. i didn't know it was going to happen. i know senior members of the joint chiefs of staff didn't know it, cia didn't know it, and suddenly the army is totally disbanded, and you have these hundreds of thousands of people who are armed and trained in the use of arms who are set free. and within a few weeks they're lining up wanting their pensions. now that they've been fired. and we had to pay some of them in order to keep, keep some peace. and then we started to rebuild an iraqi army, and that's taken some time. so i think it was a bad decision. if jerry bremer was here, he would tell you it was the right decision, but i think it was the wrong decision. and most importantly, it was not what we told the president we were going to do. >> given that the u.s. is now out of iraq at least in terms of being a combat force wh
and so suddenly between the pentagon, and it's not clear where it originated, mr. rumsfeld, mr. wolfowitz or mr. fite, gave mr. bremer the necessary instructions to disband the army if that's what he thought was right. and jermy issued the order disbanding the army. i didn't know it was going to happen. i know senior members of the joint chiefs of staff didn't know it, cia didn't know it, and suddenly the army is totally disbanded, and you have these hundreds of thousands of people who are...
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c-span: did he or his pentagon lie to us during the time that he was there for those seven years? >> guest: oh, yeah. oh, yeah. there's no question about it. c-span: on purpose? >> guest: yeah. a lot of it, i think, is sort of tactical. i mean, the most obvious example that i give is in the most easily documentable example -- is when he said right away he found there was no missile gap and the reporters went out and printed this on a background not attributing it to him by name. then it came out that he had said it -- this was right when he took office in february of '61. and then when kennedy knew that it was mcnamara who had said there was no missile gap- kennedy, of course, had run on the platform that there was a missile gap -- he then started saying he hadn't said it and there was a lot of backpedaling. and, yes, that's a lie because he had said something like that to the reporters. and, yes, it's politically convenient to deny it to avoid embarrassing the president. we've seen a lot worse since in other presidents, and at some point someone should look back and compare this
c-span: did he or his pentagon lie to us during the time that he was there for those seven years? >> guest: oh, yeah. oh, yeah. there's no question about it. c-span: on purpose? >> guest: yeah. a lot of it, i think, is sort of tactical. i mean, the most obvious example that i give is in the most easily documentable example -- is when he said right away he found there was no missile gap and the reporters went out and printed this on a background not attributing it to him by name....
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down exactly what the missing link was, but i think infriend cially they didn't bother questioning the pentagon. because you look at -- i mean, now, in retrospect, of course, the military justice system we know right now from these horrible current events, i mean, a lot to say about military justice. but i think it just didn't occur to anybody, and i think nobody in the penalty gone general counsel's office is watching the supreme court's docket for things that seem on their face to have absolutely nothing to do with the military. and, obviously, the state of louisiana and the states that came in as friends of the court on its behalf, they didn't think of the military. so it just fell through the cracks. and, you know, they say it came to my attention, but it does make you wonder how many things fall through the cracks in other cases that just don't happen to come to anybody's attention, you know? i don't, i don't know the answer to that. so then you asked about the whole debate over originalism. and, of course, this heller, the second amendment case from 2008 was really interesting because moa
down exactly what the missing link was, but i think infriend cially they didn't bother questioning the pentagon. because you look at -- i mean, now, in retrospect, of course, the military justice system we know right now from these horrible current events, i mean, a lot to say about military justice. but i think it just didn't occur to anybody, and i think nobody in the penalty gone general counsel's office is watching the supreme court's docket for things that seem on their face to have...